Painting & line
Storybook illustration
Children's-book logic applied to a game: a confident contour, flat warm colour, and pattern standing in wherever realistic detail would go.
What to look at
- 01Pattern where detail would be
- 02Flat warm colour with a dry gouache tooth
- 03Proportions stylised, never anatomical
Prompts
The prompts stay in English on purpose: image models read English best, so translating them only costs you quality. Paste them as they are.
Character prompt
Goes in the Style field of the character, T-pose and animation tools.
decorative storybook illustration game character, clean confident hand-drawn contour, flat warm colours with light gouache texture, stylised elongated proportions, decorative pattern used instead of detail
Tilemap prompt
Goes in the tilemap tool's custom style field.
decorative storybook illustration terrain, clean hand-drawn contours, flat warm gouache-textured colours, repeating decorative patterns standing in for realistic surface detail, cozy inviting palette
Background prompt
Generate a background image with this first, then feed that image to the scene splitter. Replace the bracketed part with your own scene.
A single 2D game background plate for [YOUR SCENE — e.g. a seaside village at dusk]. Horizontal composition, drawn as one illustrated scene whose buildings, trees, rocks and props sit clearly apart from one another, each fully visible and not overlapping, so every one of them can be cut out afterwards as a standalone asset. Draw it as a decorative storybook illustration: clean confident hand-drawn contours, flat warm gouache-textured colour, stylised proportions, and decorative repeating pattern used instead of realistic detail. Keep one consistent light direction and one consistent perspective across the whole scene. No characters, no text, no labels, no UI, no logos, no watermark, no border.
Games that made this look known
Wytchwood · Spiritfarer
Reference for your eye only. The prompts never name a game, so the model designs something of its own instead of copying one.
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